Microsoft is ready to clean up Mac’s outdated clock

The new ARM Snapdragon X will make Macs as old-fashioned as Stevenson’s rocket

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that while cargo cult fruit Apple did a splendid job on its latest Mac, it was going to be overtaken by new Windows-optimized laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung in the next one. four weeks.

In a conversation with the Wall Street Journal, Nadella said, “We’re going to surpass them” with the upcoming Copilot+ laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung, which have been completely redesigned for AI.

He added that Qualcomm has a new processor (ARM Snapdragon X), which Vole has optimized to work with Windows.

“The battery lab, I’m using it now – I mean, it’s 22 hours of continuous video playback… (Apple also uses ARM chips in their MacBooks). We finally feel like we have a competitive product between the Surface Pro and Surface laptops. We have the best specs in ARM-based silicon and performance or NPU performance,” Nadella said.

He showed a video demonstrating live local translation powered by “small language models” stored on the device. (“It can translate live video calls or in-person conversations from 44 different languages ​​to English. And it’s fast.”)

And in an accompanying article, the Journal reporter also tested the AI-powered image generator that will be integrated into Microsoft Paint.

As a long-time MS Paint stick figure and box artist, I was excited about this new tool. I typed in a prompt: “A Windows XP wallpaper with a mountain and a sky.” Then, as I started to draw, an AI image appeared in a new canvas next to mine. When I changed a color in my sketch, it changed a color in the generated image. Microsoft says it always sends the prompt to the cloud to ensure content security.

Privacy was also discussed. About the AI-powered “Recall” search feature, the Journal reporter notes that users can prevent it from taking screenshots of certain websites or apps, or disable it altogether.

But they point out “Some people might react like this is pretty scary. Microsoft takes screenshots of everything I do.”

Nadella reminds them that “everything is done locally, right…? That’s the promise… That’s one of the reasons Recall works like a magical thing: because I can trust it’s on my computer.”

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o will power Copilot, the Journal notes – before showing Satya Nadella, saying “It’s a bit like a new browser actually.”

Satya Nadella said: “So, it’s right there. He sees the screen, he sees the world, he hears you. And so, it’s kind of like this personal agent that’s always there and you want to talk to. You can interrupt it. This may interrupt you.

Nadella says that while the laptop is optimized for Copilot, it’s only the beginning, and “I fully expect Copilot to be everywhere” – with its individualized and innovative “personal agent” interface.

“It’s going to be ambient… It’s going to play on the phone, right? I’ll use it on WhatsApp. I’ll use it on any other messaging platform. It’ll be on high- speakers everywhere.” Nadella says that combining GPT-40 with Copilot’s interface is “the type of magic we want to bring – first to Windows and everywhere else… The future I see is a computer that understands me rather than a computer that I need to understand.